Tamara de Lempicka, the leading Art Deco painter, painted elegant women who emanated allure. De Lempicka (1898 – 1980), who was born in Poland, lived in Russia before fleeing to Paris during the Bolshevik Revolution. A participant in the bohemian lifestyle she depicted, de Lempicka had many scandalous affairs which inspired her to create distinctive, Soft Cubism-styled art featuring precise structure and elements intended to arouse desire. Changing her style to abstract art in the 1960s, de Lempicka began creating works with a spatula.